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Newsletter 1 Association for the Advancement of Baltic Studies A member of the American Council of Learned Societies President Guntis Šmidchens [email protected] Baltic studies newsletter Department of Scandinavian Studies University of Washington Box 353420 Convergences in Baltic Studies: Past, Present and Future Seattle, WA 98195-3420 PRESENT AND FUTURE CONVERGENCES President - Elect Vėjas Liulevičius, AABS President Elect, 2010-2012, Associate Professor of Vėjas Liulevičius [email protected] History, University of Tennessee University of Tennessee Since the founding of AABS in 1968, the Baltic world has of course changed beyond all recognition, and this seems an especially apt time to take stock of the Vice Presidents many convergences and continuities so evident today. In these essays, presidents of the AABS look back to evaluate a great store of shared Conferences Aldis Purs experience. They note key continuities: the succession of generations caught up in the University of Washington work of the AABS; the challenges of “thinking Baltically” in terms of conceiving of Bal- tic Studies as a whole greater than its parts of individual histories and cultures of Baltic Professional Development peoples studied in isolation from one another; the continuing challenge of engaging spe- Daunis Auers Vėjas Liulevičius cialists in the Baltic countries themselves in the larger undertaking of Baltic Studies. University of Latvia (continued on p. 4) Publications Bradley D. Woodworth AABS Archives: Twelfth Conference on Baltic Studies University of New Haven HISTORICAL 1990 PRESIDENTIAL ADDRESS BY ANDREJS PLAKANS Secretary Some decades ago among the political history of the past ticators among us. Nonetheless, Laimonas Briedis scholars who thought about soci- year, but I would suspect that it the idea of convergence as such University of British Columbia eties on a world wide scale there has not fared so well. Indeed I is still a valid hypothesis: cer- existed a theory that maintained would suspect that it probably tainly it is still one of the many Treasurer than in the course of evolution ceased to be very influential long patterns of historical change Kenneth Smith Communist and non-Commu- before the present, and, as an that can happen and have hap- Millersville University nist societies would converge by historian, I can’t help but feel a pened in the course of historical Student Representative becoming more like each other. certain degree of Schadenfreude time and therefore it can be used Amanda Swain I have not checked the current that historical events have once to explore the present. University of Washington status of this theory in light of again confounded the prognos- (continued on p. 10) Director-at-Large Volume XIX Number 1 (109), Winter 2010 1 (109), Winter Number XIX Volume Inta Gale Carpenter In this Issue Indiana University Convergences in Baltic Studies: Past, Present and Future........................................................1 Australasian Committee Andrew Blumbergs Vėjas Liulevičius, Andrejs Plakans, Gundar King, Jaan Puhvel, Ilse Lehiste, Valters University of Melbourne Nollendorfs, William R. Schmalstieg, Vaira Vīķe-Freiberga, Rein Taagepera, Tomas Administrative Executive Director A. Venclova, Toivo U. Raun, Violeta Kelertas, Thomas Palm, Juris Dreifelds, Saulius Irena Blekys Sužiedėlis, Thomas Salumets, Inta Gāle Carpenter, Guntis Šmidchens [email protected] [email protected] Andrejs Plakans. Twelfth Conference on Baltic Studies..........................................................1 Preparations for SASS-AABS Conference...............................................................................3 Academic Executive Director Olavi Arens Aldis Purs, Dancing Shoes and Common Approaches............................................................11 Armstrong Atlantic University Upcoming Conferences and events......................................................................................... 20 Editor, Journal of Baltic Studies Michael Biggins. Baltic Studies Collections in North American Research Libraries.............21 Terry D. Clark Guntis Šmidchens. US-Baltic Fulbright Scholars Exchanges, 1993-2009.............................22 Creighton University Rasa Baukuvienė. US Academic Exchanges with Lithuania..................................................22 Editor, Baltic Studies Newsletter Jane Susi, Tiiu Vitsut. Four Decades of US-Estonian Exchanges..........................................23 Rimas Žilinskas Ingrida Bodniece, Academic Exchanges Between Latvia and the United States...................23 [email protected] George Washington University Amanda Swain. US-Baltic Fulbright Exchanges.....................................................................24 AABS Annual Report, 2007-2008............................................................................................25 http://depts.washington.edu/aabs/ 14743 Braemar Crescent Way, Darnestown, MD 20878-3911, Tel: (301) 977-8491 Fax: (301) 977-8492, [email protected] AABS Baltic Studies Newsletter • Winter 2010 1 The Baltic Studies Summer Institute (BALSSI) offers intensive Estonian, Latvian and Lithuanian language courses and a cultural enhancement program which introduces students to the rich world of Baltic history and culture. The Center for Russia, East Europe and Central Asia (CREECA) at the University of Wisconsin-Madison will host the Baltic Studies Summer Institute (BALSSI) in the summer of 2010 (June 14-August 6). First- and second-year* Estonian, Latvian, and Lithuanian language courses will be offered, as well as lectures (in English) on Baltic history and culture and a variety of cultural events related to the Baltic lands. BALSSI is sponsored by a consortium of twelve U.S. universities and receives additional support from the Association for the Advancement of Baltic Studies, the American Council of Learned Societies, and the Lithuanian Foundation. BALSSI at the University of Wisconsin-Madison would like to acknowledge the generous assistance we have received from Madison-Vilnius Sister Cities and Žaibas Lithuanian Dancers. Read about BALSSI events hosted by these two local com- munity organizations in the 2009 MVSC Summer Newsletter. In addition, we would like to thank the U.S. Baltic Foundation for their collaboration with BALSSI. For more information about BALSSI 2010, visit our website http://www.creeca.wisc.edu/balssi/ or contact Nancy Hein- gartner, BALSSI program coordinator, [email protected], 1-608-262-3379. *Scheduling of classes at the second-year level is contingent on sufficient enrollment, and may be canceled due to low enrollment. Please apply as early as possible to help ensure your class will be offered. 2 AABS Baltic Studies Newsletter • Winter 2010 Preparations for SASS-AABS Conference Not long after Santa Claus made his list and checked it twice, the list making tasks fell AABS Membership to the organizers of the upcoming joint SASS-AABS Conference. Together they sifted meeting Friday, April through more than 350 paper proposals and began the long, detailed work of creating panels. 23, 2010, Slowly, but surely, the upcoming conference is taking shape. What can you expect? There are panels on Ibsen and nothing but Ibsen for Scandinavianists as well as on 4:45-6:00 pm the current work of the official, state sponsored history commissions of the Baltic States. Plestcheeff Auditorium Those who want first and foremost to attend a conference of their beloved learned society will be at home and comfortable. The conference, however, also breaks regional Downtown, borders and includes many panels that examine the larger Baltic Sea region or panels that Seattle Art Museum examine individual themes as they apply to Baltic and Scandinavian scholars. Equally, the preliminary conference programs complement each other seamlessly. The Scandinavian specialists that flock to a panel on Nordic church history may well follow their interests to Preliminary Conference Schedule panels that look at developments in Baltic churches. Likewise, the many Baltic scholars Thursday, April 22 presenting papers broadly on issues of identity will find many similar concerns in the SASS program. The conference promises to be something familiar and something new. 8:30-12:00 AABS Board Meeting For this conference, all AABS paper proposals were submitted to the same place, (Executive Board Room) there was not a division by discipline as has often been the case. As a result, expect 11:00-4:00 pm SASS Winery Tour more interdisciplinary panels that place geographers, political scientists, and historians 12:00-1:00 pm Lunch together if there is a strong, uniform theme or subject matter among them. In practice, 1:00-2:30 pm AABS Session 1 these panels may have some drawbacks as each discipline employs its own jargon and perspective, but the cumulative effect should be an opportunity to peer over the walls 2:30-2:45 pm Coffee Break surrounding our own gardens to study the work of our neighbors (to paraphrase and steal 2:45-4:15 pm AABS Session 2 from the opening salvo of the first issue of the Annales d’histoire économique et sociale 7:00-9:00 pm Welcome Reception as quoted by Norman Davies in Europe: A History, p. 955-956). The joint conference with the Scandinavian scholars, another opportunity to see the work of our geographical Friday, April 23 neighbors, seems particularly appropriate for this interdisciplinary approach. 8:30-10:00 AABS Session 3 Also new to the conference, and borrowed from SASS, is a designated lunch event. SASS 10:00-10:15 Coffee Break
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